Years ago a senior official was talking about HMRC prosecution policy. He mentioned an occasion when he had lost a case and went back to his legal advisers to find out what had gone wrong.
"I thought you'd told me you thought we had a very strong case" he said. "So why did we lose?"
"Aha" said the lawyer, "You asked me what I thought and I told you that I felt that we had a very strong case. That was all you wanted to know.
Had you asked I'd have told you that I also thought the other side had a very strong case too."
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